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QNAP TVS-h1288x Review

The QNAP TVS-h1288x NAS is a recent addition to the company’s QuTS hero line of ZFS-based devices. ZFS allows for better data integrity and several enterprise features. The TVS-h1288x NAS uses an Intel Xeon W CPU, 14 total drive bays, and a vast array of options when it comes to expansion and connectivity.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Intel P5510 NVMe Enterprise SSD Review

The Intel SSD D7-P5510 is dubbed the world’s first 144-Layer TLC drive (first to market) and is the latest addition to the company’s family of data center drives, which focus on broad cloud workloads at reduced costs. Available in a U.2 form factor in two models (3.84TB and 7.68TB), the P5510 utilizes TLC NAND, which

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Memblaze PBlaze6 6920 NVMe SSD Review

The Memblaze PBlaze6 6920 is the company’s new NVMe SSD series that features a PCIe Gen4 interface and the potential performance gains that could bring. The 6920 is a U.2 drive that leverages 96-Layer NAND. There are two drives in this series, the PBlaze6 D6920 and the PBlaze6 D6926, the former being the lower endurance

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Liqid Element LQD4500 Review (Honey Badger)

Nearly two years ago at the Flash Memory Summit, Liqid announced its Honey Badger SSD, or properly known as the Liqid Element LQD4500 edge card. At the time, the company claimed that this was the world’s fastest NVMe storage. How fast? The claims were 24GB/s and over 4 million IOPS at the time, again, a

Enterprise  ◇  Server

HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus V2 Server Review

Shortly after AMD launched its latest generation of AMD EPYC 7003 processors, HPE announced several updates for support of the new CPUs. Amid this announcement, the company announced the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus V2 Server. The server is a 2U, dual-socket system with the ability to have up to 128 cores and 8TB of

iXsystems TrueNAS mini with WD Red Plus drives
Enterprise  ◇  Small NAS

Budget TrueNAS CORE System Showdown

A few months ago, we started our $800 TrueNAS build competition. In a nutshell, Brian, Ben, Kevin took $800 and built their own NAS system leveraging TrueNAS CORE as an OS. Thanks to Western Digital, the guys didn’t have to worry about storage, WD provided a bevy of SSD and HDD options for the guys

Kingston DC1500M front
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Kingston DC1500M U.2 NVMe SSD Review

The Kingston DC1500M is the company’s latest U.2 data center NVMe PCIe SSD specifically designed for cloud providers, hyperscale data centers, and enterprise-level IT on-premise servers. The DC1500M is an affordable enterprise SSD, making it an ideal solution for organizations looking to move from SATA/SAS SSDs to NVMe in order to leverage the interface’s much

Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Docker Swarm Install on a Thin Client

As someone who doesn’t have a very large budget to spend on my homelab, the HP t730 thin client is actually perfect for homelab use. Lucky for me I was able to win one during a recent StorageReview giveaway on their sub-Reddit. The t730 has enough RAM and CPU to be flexible enough for many

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

ScaleFlux CSD 2000 Review

ScaleFlux is a company that is solely focused on computational storage, more specifically computational storage at scale. The company is primarily doing this with its ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drives (CSD). As you may have guessed by their name, the CSD is an NVMe SSD integrated with compute engines that can improve drive and system performance.

Enterprise  ◇  Server

Supermicro 1124US-TNRP Server Review

The Supermicro 1124US-TNRP is a 1U server that leverages the new AMD EPYC 7003 processors. The server is part of Supermicro’s A+ Ultra family. If the name and the picture below are causing déjà vu, it is because we already review the near-identical Supermicro 1024US-TRT Server. The previous review was also looking at a newer